If I create a user in a testmethod, I cannot select them with SOQL in the same testmethod. How can I work around this?

Question

I am creating a test method to test functionality allowing users to search for other users.

In order to do this, I have tried creating and saving test users with certain criteria, and then searching for those users with a SOQL select. However, when I try to search for those test users, I cannot find them - I only find "real" users that exist outside the test. I assume that this is because "real" users are available to testmethods.

If I cannot rely on "real" users to be consistent between environments, and I cannot create and insert a user within the test, I have no idea how to test this functionality. Is there a way to access users you create & insert within a test method?

Answer 1

I don't see why that would not work, I've made a quick example based on what you explained and the test pass perfectly, try it out:

@isTest
private class UserCriteriaFilteringTest {

    @isTest static void user_search_test() {
        // Implement test code
       Profile senior_manager_profile = [select Id, Name from Profile where Name = 'Senior Manager' limit 1];

       Double hash = Double.valueOf(System.now().millisecond());
       User u = new User(alias =  'TestUser',
         email='[email protected]',
         emailencodingkey='UTF-8', lastname='Testing',
         languagelocalekey='en_US', localesidkey='en_US',
         profileid = senior_manager_profile.Id,
         timezonesidkey='America/Los_Angeles', username=  String.valueOf(hash) + '[email protected]');
       insert u;

       hash = Double.valueOf(System.now().millisecond());
       User u1 = new User(alias =  'TestUser',
         email='[email protected]',
         emailencodingkey='UTF-8', lastname='Testing',
         languagelocalekey='en_US', localesidkey='en_US',
         profileid = senior_manager_profile.Id,
        timezonesidkey='America/Los_Angeles', username=  String.valueOf(hash) + '[email protected]');
       insert u1;

       // filter by the email address to get only mock users.
       List<User> users = [select id, Name from User where email = '[email protected]'];

       System.assert(users.size() == 2);

    }


}